Ok, I'm no longer in Canada. Bummer. After ten months, I'm broke, directionless, and (sometimes) sober. I also seem to have developed a painful addiction to 60's-style garage punk. Oh well.
Future travel plans... are feeling like pipe dreams. Boo.
Anyhow...My punk rock CV. Ha. For those who don't know me, I occasionally do a zine. Its called Facial Disobedience and its usually a pretty whiney personal zine. I've not done one for a while. I also used to churn out a thousand words every now and then for Last Hours - and I may ruin your zine too if you ask nicely (please?).
I also, mostly to kill time due to poverty, put out a free one sheet music zine every couple of months called Bad Apples. I put the transcripts up on the local hardcore board but then spam bots hacked it to death. So...um.. message me or something and I'll post you copies.
Once, many moons ago, I shouted like a poor mans Kevin Seconds for Pilger and drunkenly thrashed my bass out of time for Gordon Gano's Army . GGA have put out a bunch of records since that I'm sure are worth checking out, and Screwed Up Flyer were a new band featuring ex-Pilger and Intent people. But they split up already.
Me, I'm now screaming for a hardcore band called Like Grenades. We're pretty angry and theres a demo on the way. Yeah!
Heres some more links to interesting stuff that you should check out:
Zines:
*** Microcosm Publishing - huge American zine distro and publisher - www.microcosmpublishing.com *** Fall Of Autumn - Online zine resource with free pod casts, clip art etc - www.fallofautumn.com *** Toronto Zine Library - Awesome zine library. In Toronto. - www.sitekreator.com/zinelibrary *** Lickin' The Beaters Vegan Cookbook - DIY Vegan cook books - www.dairyfreedesserts.com *** London Zine Symposium - Fantastic UK zine convention. The highlight of my spring! - www.londonzinesymposium.org.uk *** danielcolbourneisawriter blog - I dont really read blogs. This one made me laugh though. The Stuttgart story is genius. One day I'll find time to read the rest, ha ha - danielcolbourneisawriter.blogspot.com *** Steve Larder - Awesome punk rock artist - www.stevelarder.co.uk
Other stuff:
Labourstart - online trade union news and campaign resource - www.labourstart.org.uk Plan It X Records - inspiring punk record label, home to Ghost Mice, This Bike Is A Pipebomb etc - www.plan-it-x.com *** At The Library Records - Southampton CDR label, run by Russ Substance and with releases from No Substance, Ratface etc. CDR labels are the tape labels of the 00's! DIY - www.atthelibraryrecords.co.uk *** Littletype - Sweet pop punk distro - www.littletype.com *** Southcoast DIY Punk Forum - SoutHCoast punk forum, with gig listings and other useful stuff - www.southcoasthq.com